Killing and twistor spinors with torsion (Q258022)

The author investigates the Killing and twistor spinors with torsion. More precisely, in the setting of a Riemannian spin manifold \((M, g)\), he considers the Levi-Civita connection \(\nabla^g\) twisted with a torsion form \(T \in \bigwedge^3 M\), obtaining a family of metric connections with torsion \(\nabla^s=\nabla^g+2sT\), with \(s \in \mathbb{R}\). For \(s=\frac{1}{4}\), the characteristic connection \(\nabla^c\) is obtained. With the additional condition \(\nabla^c T=0\), the author is able to study the corresponding versions of Killing spinors and twistor spinors in this framework: Killing spinors with torsion and twistor spinors with torsion, respectively. The importance of these spinors is related to the realization of the lower eigenvalues estimate of the corresponding Dirac operator. The twistor equation with torsion is described using the parallelism on a certain bundle. As a direct application, a twistor spinor with torsion has isolated zero points. Furthermore, for spinors parallel with respect to the characteristic connection the author establishes a correspondence between Killing spinors with torsion and Riemannian Killing spinors. This offers the possibility to investigate several examples of Killing and twistor spinors with torsion on nearly Kähler manifolds, on nearly parallel \(G_2\) manifolds, etc. Finally, the author obtains necessary geometric conditions that ensure the existence of a \(\nabla^c\) parallel Killing spinor with torsion on the manifold.